From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Apr 23 00:52:08 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id AAA13967 for questions-outgoing; Tue, 23 Apr 1996 00:52:08 -0700 (PDT) Received: from ian.iafrica.com (root@ian.iafrica.com [196.7.0.130]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with ESMTP id AAA13932 for ; Tue, 23 Apr 1996 00:52:01 -0700 (PDT) Received: from ian.iafrica.com (khetan@ian.iafrica.com [196.7.0.130]) by ian.iafrica.com (8.7.5/8.6.12) with SMTP id JAA00323; Tue, 23 Apr 1996 09:50:58 +0200 (SAT) Date: Tue, 23 Apr 1996 09:50:58 +0200 (SAT) From: Khetan Gajjar To: Jim Dennis cc: lenzi@cwbone.bsi.com.br, questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: xhost In-Reply-To: <199604222318.QAA31122@mistery.mcafee.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Mon, 22 Apr 1996, Jim Dennis wrote: > Sorry to barge into the middle of this -- but ... if that > machine is connected with anyone you don't trust (for _high_ > values of "trust") I'd suggest you undo it. It's on a dial-up, and when on, monitored very closely. > the net to access your X server (display server). This allows > anyone to put windows on your display, and read keyboard and > mouse events from your session. How would they do this ? BTW, I run xdm from my rc.local Should I be doing it from ttys ? If so, how ? --- Khetan Gajjar Visit at http://www.iafrica.com/~khetan/ Pipex-Internet Africa Operations help@iafrica.com or 0800-030-002